If you spot one large enough to take (adults only, and no females with egg sacs attached), you try to spear it with a single thrust before it senses your presence and skitters away.
One of the first time travel stories, Norwegian Johan Wessel's 1781 comedic novel "Anno 7603, " mostly skitters over any scientific snarls, focusing on a couple who visit the past with the help of a fairy, according to physicist Paul J.